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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
Wise Mercantile nraxin,s.

A thoroughly honest clerk can always
command better salary than one of
equivocal habits.
He who has traded out his neighbor' s
good opinion is pretty sure to die poor
man, however high the price for which
he sold it.
When business is attended with mi
nuteness of detail, strict punctuality, it
runs evenly, without jar or friction, and
insures success.
1t is statistical truth that no single cause
leads to more disasters than the use of
liquors. not necessarily through drunken
ness, but the enfeebling of the Judgment.
In dress, be neat and unobtrusiye. The
perfection of dress is to be SO perfectly in
keeping with your occupation that the
attention of an observer is not directed to
it at all.
Vainly shall man hope to live and
thrive by buying and selling after his
neighbors and customers have learned by
sad experience that his word is not reli-
able, that his representations of the cost
or quality of his wares are not to be
trusted.
Fuming and fretting in and around a
store, finding fault with clerks and em-
ployes, denotes a lack of order and bust
ness tact, and exposes the merchant to
,ridicule and unpleasant comments from
these from whom he should have respect
and confidence. York Mail and
Express.
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A Climatic Regularity.

A correspondent of an eastern paper
points out the fact that at Lucerne, in
the southern part of this state, a high
range of thermometer puts it at 116
can be endured even by the workers in
the field without great deal of inconven-
ience. He attributes the fact to the move
ment of the coast winds, and the cool
nights which tend SO much to recupera-
ton. This condition of the atmosphere is
not peculiar to Lueerne and southern Cali
fornia. It is common also to central and
part of upper California. 1t is well
established fact that in this state 80 degs.
of heat does not cause a great deal of
personal discomfort. 1t can be endured
much more easily than 76 degs. at the
east. The higher range with US IS no
attended with wilted collars, hor crushed
wristbands, except in the caseAOf violent
exertion. The reason is not exclusively
the prevalence of coast winds, but the
dryness of the atmosphere. The heat
absorbed by the system at once radiates
in all directions. AT the east, in conse-
quence of the greater moisture of the
atmosphere, the heat is retained. Cali
fornians have been known to flee precipl-
lately from New York with a ther-
mometrical range of from 76 to so degs.,
though 10 degs. more would not render
them uncomfortable in the southern
country, or the Sacramento or San
Joaquin valleys. The radiation outward
of the heat is also supposed to account
for the absence of sunstroke, and of rabies
among dogs.-San Francisco Bulletin.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
Tobacco in Persia.

Tobacco is indulged in to an incredible
extent. It is mostly smoked in Persian
water pipes (ghalyan). If the tobacco is
of the Shiraz brands it is very good but
strong; and the Persian smoker will smoke
SO many pipes day-often forty to fifty
las to be in a estate of happiness, y
called "keff, :" early in the afternoon.
This means a species of narcosis brought
on by their peculiar manner of smoking,
that is, inhaling the smoke, allowing it
to penetrate the lungs, and then letting it
escape by the nose and ears. As tobacco
is excessively cheap and time no object
to the average Persian, this variety of
dissipation is the most prevalent one, and
one not forbidden by the Koran either.
While the "keff'' lasts the pupils of the
eyes are dilated, and sort of drowsy in
difference to all outside objects seems to
pervade the smoker. A curious fact in
connection with the use of tobacco in
Persia is the manner in which its solace
is is,provided by vendors in the streets tc
all passers by. Cigars are not sold there,
but the venders, each carrying a goodly
supply of pipes aid tobacco with him, are
plentiful. For two cents anybody can sit
down in the street and smoke a well filed
ghalyan. This takes him about thirty
minutes to do.-The Cosmopolitan.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
Dogs In Bavaria.

Bavaria has succeeded in doing what
no other country has yet been able to ac-
complish; she has practically stamped
out hydrophobia. During the last seven
years there have been only three deaths
of human beings from hydrophobia in a
population numbering close upon 6,000,-
900; and since 1876, when the present
severe dog laws came into operation,
there has never been more than one death
in year. Previously to that time deaths
were very frequent. Between 1863 and
1876 the death rate from hydrophobia IN
Bavaria was never less than fourteen in a
year, and once it reached the high per-
centage of thirty-one. The regulations
which have banished this terrible malady
from whole kingdom are very minute,
and perhaps some little vexatious; but it
is assuredly worth while to take little
trouble for so desirable an end.
Every dog in the country is bound,
upon pain of instant death, to bear upon
his collar metal tally, upon which is in
scr1bed his number upon the register of
his district. The color and shape of this
tally, which is really the dogs passport,
are changed every year, and the police
are thus able to see at glance if dog is
''in order Once month all dogs have
to be examined by veterinary surgeon,
and if they are not in good health they
are detained in kind of dogs hospital
until they recover. If an animal changes
hands, the transfer must be at once noti-
fed to the police, and any breach of the
regulations even delay of few days
in the payment of the tax-is visited by
a heavy fine. The tax varies from three
shillings year in the country districts to
fifteen shillings in the large towns.-St.
James Budget.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
LITTLE OLD FASHIONED.

As prim lily in some quiet nook,
She sits by herself, with her slate or her book
And hears with an air patronizingly gay
The voices of other sweet children at play.
Demurely she sighs, by which you infer
That such romping and merriment are not for
her;
But some ones heart whispers that she is her
pearl,
Her little home body, her old fashioned girl.
She s'plays tea" alone by sofa or chair.
Rocks baby to sleep with matronly air,
Then sews by the cradle With glasses on, she
A pocket edition of granny would be.
When mother looks careworn, ah quickly she
sees,
And knows how few soothing love words will
please,
Then in that dear lap lays each SOFT shining curl
She's mothers own comfort, her old fashioned
girl.
When twilight has mellowed the loud paytime
din,
She quietly asks, ''Are the children all in?"
Or, watching the step, when a footstep comes
near,
She whispers, That's father; I'm so glad he's
herer'
The youngest of shoulders, the oldest of headsl
Does any one know wee darling who sheds
A joy and sunshine mid life's tireless whirl,
Like mothers home body, her old fashioned girl!
Harper's Young People
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Disappointed Nimrods.

Some days ago number of sportsmen
went across the lake ON hunting and
fishing excursion. The party was COM
posed of well known engraver, one of
the artists employed on popular maga-
zine, a printer, a young literary man,
and others of lesser note. The pro-
gramme, as laid down on the start, was,
that deer, bear, elk and other game
should be shot by the hunters, sketched
and engraved by the artist and engraver,
and that full account of the trip should
be written by the literary man, set up by
the printer, published after the party
came back, and sold in monthly num-
bers, forty eight in a set, at twenty-five
cents each. The nimrods took ammuni-
ton enough with them to kill all the
game from New Brunswick to Manitoba.
After week of tramping they succeeded
in bagging hedgehog and crow, and
in capturing two bass, "a great many of
which would weigh pound. . 1t is un-
necessary to add that the apparatus for
sketching. engraving and type setting,
which formed no inconsiderable portion
of the baggage, was not unpacked
Rochester Post Express.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
New Anchor for Steamers.

Experiments have been made during
the week in the harbor of Havre and on
the Seine with new cable anchor, which
will bring to a standstill the largest
steamer going at the greatest speed
within space of ten feet. Large steamers
were subjected to the experiment, which
in all cases proved successful, and the
government commission present recon-
mended the new anchor for use on
government ships. This new anchor is
described as a huge cloth parachute,
anchor shaped, attached to the ship by
cables, with a huge iron weight in the
middle. This balloon shaped anchor re-
sists the onward movement of ships with
tremendous power, assuming very much
the singular balloon or bucket shape Of
ssold maid founders on the New Eng
land coast, which, by SO doing when
hooked, generally succeed in breaking
the line. Chicago Tribune.
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wretehed and miserable Homes.

1t is a constant subject of inquiry why
there are so many deserted wives in our
city; why so many men, when trouble
overtakes them, run away from their
homes, leaving the burden of toll and
sorrow to fall upon the wife and mother;
why it is that SO many men get drunk,
neglect their wives. neglect their children,
making their homes wretched and miser-
able when those homes should be as they
are intended to be, spots of earthly para
disc? The answer will be found in the
disposition to separate families, young
children being sent to the west, a sick
child or sick father to the hospital, all
resulting from the overcrowded dwell
ings of the masses and in the street influ-
ences SO destructive to the tender associa-
tions Of the home. Persons SO reared are
i'll fitted to assume the responsibilities of
married life, and when such duties come
to them know little of what is required
Of them. A poor home is better than no
home, and poor nursing at home is more
to be desired for the individual and the
community than the most skillful nursing
in the hospital. Physician in New York
Tribune.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
Peculiar.sies OF the swordfish.

When excited, Professor Goode says.
the swordfish's S motions are most quick
and nervous. The fish are sometimes seen
to leap entirely out of the water. The
pointed head, the fins on the back and
abdomen simply fitting into grooves, the
absence of ventrals, the long, 1.-THE, mus
cular body, sloping slowly to the tail, fit
it for the most rapid and forcible move
ment through the water. 1t strikes with
the accumulated force of fifteen double
headed hammers. Its velocity is equal to
that of swivel shot and is as dangerous
in its effects as a heavy artillery projee-
tile. Many very curious instances are on
record of the encounters Of this fish with
other fishes, or of their attacks upon
ships. What can be the inducement for
it to attack objects so much larger than
itself it is hard to surmise. 1t surely
seems as if a temporary insanity some
times takes possession of the fish. An old
swordfsherman told Mr.. Blackford that
his vessel had been struck twenty times.
There are, however, many instances of
entirely unprovoked assault on vessels at
sea.-New York Mail and Express.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
AN ACTORS LOVE LETTERS.

And Other Matters for the Hopper of the
Secondhand Paper Stock Dealer.
"Love letters? oh, yes, we come across
them quite often in our stock; but we
have no time to read 'em. You see
business, not sentiment, is my motto,
said down town dealer in paper stock.
when people are leaving house they
have lived in a good many years they
don't care to be bothered with old papers,
and they just sell them to us at so much
a pound, whether it is love letters, OF
magazines, or whatever it may be.
II did have rather notable experience
with a love letter once, though. I was
sorting over bundle which had just ar
rived from a house up town-for we
always sort over in case there should
happen to be anything valuable-when a
monogram on a letter met my eye.
knew that monogram, and l thought
that perhaps it might be something that
ought to be sent back. / glanced at the
letter, and then / saw what it was II
was from a lady belonging to one of ou1
first families, so called, to well known
actor, who made Juror in New York
quite number Of years ago. The actor
had stopped in that house awhile, and
didn't seem to have thought the letters
worth taking with him, or perhaps he
forgot them. At any rate they came
down here in that bundle, an ocean Of
them, and some of them had not even
been opened, which shows how little
actors think of that kind of correspond
ence. The whole lot went for paper
stock. No, I didn't keep one. 1t would
not have been business like.
'sAnd we have old checks and old tele-
grams by the ton. All business houses
get rid Of them as old paper after keep
ing them for a certain length of time,
and sometimes the price of the waste pa
per is all they get out of a good many OF
the checks. 1t all comes into the hopper
at from a cent to cent and a quarter a
pound, for paper stock just now is very
low; it has never been lower.
'sThose album covers? They come to us
at price little above waste paper, and
sometimes we get quite good figure fol
them. You see, the wholesale houses thai
deal in albums send out only the covers
as specimens, and when a cover is out oi
date it comes into the second hand deal
er's hopper.
CAT the new directory season we reaI
quite crop of the last years directories
all as waste paper, and sell them for 81
apiece. A good many would just as soor
have them as the new ones.
ssBut aldermen and other politicians
are among our best customers in old, o.
rather second hand books. May seen
queer, but it's fact. They get heaps oi
books from Washington, besides state
and city documents. and they just pu1
them to one side until the heap gets in
convenient, and then they pack them of
to the paper stock dealer. In many in
stances such books have not been ever
taken out of the packages. But it's al
the same to us. We pay a cent and {
quarter for them. New York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
Nel1ie Grant,s LIttle paughter.

Nellie Grants daughter, little Vivian
Sartoris, is a beautiful child. Playing on
the beach at EeBg 4B3faanca with It'll her maid
the other day, she was a picture of at
tractive childhood, delicate, quick and
intelligently American, rather than ro-
bustly English. She is not in the least
like her father, but inherits her mothers
eyes, brunette complexion and shapely
hands, with hint of Gen. Grant about
the forehead and rather prominent ears.
Mrs. Sartoris dresses her with great taste,
and the child M an unaffected, happy
creature. A lady with two children a
little younger than Vivian, chubby Great
ures both, passed near the child and said
something to her little people which evi-
IDENTIFY interested them very much. The
tots looked at each other minute, then
ran up to Gen. Grants granddaughter
and emptied the treasured stones and
shells they had picked up in their walk
into dainty straw basket that she car
ried. They trotted away again without
saying a word. New York Mail and
Express.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
disease, wbich FOLLOW Anger,

In diseases of the heart, anger is a
potent agency of evil. If death does not
occur from a sudden, intense shock, the
organ is enfeebled by every itof passion.
In persons of a plethoric habit and given
to excesses in eating, and in those in
whom the coats Of the blood vessels of
the brain have been weakened by degen-
erative changes, anger increases the
danger of apoplexy. A variety of other
diseases is liable to follow. immoderate
anger; among them may be mentioned
paralysis, epilepsy and hysteria. Anger,
or violent or ungovernable temper, as it
is sometimes expressed, holds, according
to the reports of the different lunatic
asylums both in Europe and America, a
prominent place among the causes of
insanity. Good Housekeeping.
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Interesting to Antiauarians.

The Russian Novosti states that some
stones bearing Syrian Inscriptions have
been discovered in Semiretchinsk, and
that NJ. Khvolson, corresponding MEM
ber of the Academy of Sciences, has
just written a monograph on those of
them that have been deciphered. They
are said to be the only Syrian Inscriptions
yet discovered outside Mesopotamia, and
they may be traced to the HISTORIANS who
traversed Central Asia and established
themselves on the confines of China. =
Home Journal.
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One of the most valuable collections of
pipes in the world belongs. to Capt.
Bragge, of London. 1t contains 5000
specimens and is called by the captain
"Pipes of all nations. There are in it
many pipes found in American mounds.
The collection is SO complete that it COM
prises the common as well as the most
richly carved pipes that have ever been
manufactured. There is no nation or
tribe of whose workmanship in the max
ing of pipes he has not a specimen. The
captain is very proud of his collection,
and has frequently put it on exhibition
in the Alexandra palace for charitable
purposes. New York Evening Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
yvatc, Doos for septrv Dutv.

One of the latest freaks of military SCI
ence is the training of watch dogs for
sentry duty. The French war minister
has given orders that dogs shall be tried
in connection with advance post duty and
taught to bark at the approach Of an
enemy or stranger. Dogs are also to be
used as scouts, and il they prove useful
they are to be attached to all the line reg
inents and stationed regularly with the
double sentries. Letting loose the dogs
of war" thus promises to have literal
as well as a netaphorical meaning New
York Tribune.
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French as She is pronounced.

stopped yes erday to price some very
beautiful pears which were exposed for
sale upon fruit stand.
'sWhat sort are they?" asked, ssand
how much do you charge for them?''
Fifteen cents apiece replied the
vender, briefly. They're the real duchy
dangle 'em. :"
It took me until morning to make out
that he meant the ssDuchesse d'Angou-
leme New Orleans TinAes- Democrat.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
The Early Americans.

The early Americans were representa-
tives of the stone age in most cases, al
though few possessed the knowledge of
metals. They were particularly clever
stone workers, and the samples of their
workmanship show them well versed in
the arts of the potter. In clay molding
they were also skillful. The textile arts
were practiced, such as cotton and wool
spinning and weaving. Cotton was ex-
tensively raised in Mexico and Yucatan,
and two species of goats were acclima-
tized to Peru for the sake of their wool.
Boston Budget.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
sensibility of Thermometers.

The sensibility of thermometers varies
greatly. If the capacity of the reservoir
is large, compared with the bore of the
tube, slight change of temperature will
materially affect the height of the mer-
curial column. If small, and the glass
bulb is thin, the mercury contained in it
will be more rapidly affected than if a
large amount were to be acted upon. A
cylindrical reservoir is better than a
spherical one, because it exposes larger
surface. Chicago News.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08
woman Suffrage in Belfast.

Municipal suffrage has just been granted
by parliament to the women householders
of Belfast. Women householders have
had municipal suffrage in England for
eighteen years, and in Scotland for four
years: but this is the first step that has
been taken toward extending the same
right to the women of Ireland. There are
about 5000 women householders in Bel
fast who will be entitled to vote under
the new law.--Home Journal.
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Height of the Eskimos.

Mr. w. A. Ashe, of Quebec. reports
that the Eskimos living near Hudson
Straight have mean height for the men
of feet 3-9 inches, and for the women,
about 5 feet. Their body temperature
averaged 1902 degs. for winter and 9S.4
degs. for summer, that Of the observing
party being 98. degs. and 97.7 degs. re-
spectively. Arkansaw Traveller.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08

It has been noticed that girl who has
graduated from vssssar and had $50, 900
spent on her education will after marriage
hold clothespins in her mouth and gossip
over the back fence just like other women,
You can't change woman ] nature.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08

He who does not respect confidence
will never find happiness in his path.
The belief in virtue vanishes from bis
heart, the source Of nobler actions be-
comes extinct in him.
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Timidity creates towards and never wins
success. It's a strong and abiding faith
in ones own ability to perform, that over
comes difficulties that others thought could
not be surmounted.
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Eittv starnlv Rebuked.

Little Margery, playing with her kitten,
got rather severe scratch from the ami
NAL. Her lip trembled for an instant,
and then she assumed the commanding
attitude and expression that her mother
had assumed under somewhat similar cir
cumstances toward her, and, extending
her hand, said sternly:
Titty, dive me dat pinr'-Boston
Transcript.
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EaaiIv Accounted For.

The extraordinary supply of grouse in
London on the first day the shooting law
was up is now accounted for by the in
formation that the grouse had been kept
for ten months in ice cellars at temper
ature of 28 degs. They were very much
relished. New York Sun.
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A police magistrate has refused to
believe that man can live next door
to a saloon and never enter it. Why,
men have been known to live next door
to church and never enter it
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Criticism ID YYagner.

Mamma, " was the criticism OF very
young gentleman at rendering of Wag-
ner music during q Philharmonic con.
cert, sit sounds just as if they were tear
ing cotton clothl''-The Epoch.
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Church1ess London People.

London has great problem. It has
100000 people unable to get into a
place of worship. In central London,
with 1000, 900, there is only aceommoda-
ton for 600, 900. Commercial Adver-
tiser.
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The girl who fills her essay with the
true, the beautiful and the good, !" may
have learned how to make cake, but we
must refuse to believe it.
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Journalists get more free advice than
any other class of people, and it is not
strange that newspapers have advice left
over which they can afford to give away.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08

Husbands who leave property to their
widows under the odious conditions that
they do not marry again might as well
not die at all.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-08

The best way to please man is to tell
him what he thinks of himself. The best
way to please a woman is to tell her what
she thinks Of herself.